Ulysses — Page 9
He looked in Stephen's face as he spoke.
彼は話しながらスティーヴンの顔を見つめた。
A light wind passed his brow, fanning softly his fair uncombed hair and stirring silver points of anxiety in his eyes.
かすかな風が彼の額をよぎり、梳かされていない淡い髪をそっとなびかせ、その目に銀色の不安の光をきらめかせた。
Stephen, depressed by his own voice, said:
スティーヴンは自分の声に暗い気持ちになりながら言った。
—Do you remember the first day I went to your house after my mother's death?
「母が死んだあと、初めて君の家に行った日のことを覚えているか？」
Buck Mulligan frowned quickly and said:
バック・マリガンはさっと眉をひそめて言った。
—What? Where? I can't remember anything. I remember only ideas and sensations. Why? What happened in the name of God?
「何？ どこで？ 何も覚えていない。覚えているのは考えや感覚だけだ。なぜ？ いったい何があったんだ？」
—You were making tea, Stephen said, and went across the landing to get more hot water.
「君はお茶を入れていて、お湯を足しに踊り場を渡って向こうへ行った」とスティーヴンは言った。
Your mother and some visitor came out of the drawingroom.
君のお母さんと誰か客人が客間から出てきた。
She asked you who was in your room.
お母さんが、君の部屋に誰がいるのかと尋ねた。
—Yes? Buck Mulligan said. What did I say? I forget.
「そうか？」とバック・マリガンは言った。「で、僕は何と言った？ 忘れてしまった。」
—You said, Stephen answered, _O, it's only Dedalus whose mother is beastly dead._
「君はこう言った」とスティーヴンは答えた。「ああ、デダラスだよ、母親がひどい死に方をした奴さ。」
A flush which made him seem younger and more engaging rose to Buck Mulligan's cheek.
バック・マリガンの頬に赤みが差し、それが彼をより若々しく魅力的に見せた。
—Did I say that? he asked. Well? What harm is that?
「僕がそう言ったのか？」と彼は尋ねた。「それで？ 何が悪いんだ？」
He shook his constraint from him nervously.
彼は苛立たしげに自分の中の気まずさを振り払った。
—And what is death, he asked, your mother's or yours or my own?
「それに死とは何だ」と彼は言った。「君の母の死であれ、君の死であれ、僕自身の死であれ？」
You saw only your mother die.
君は自分の母が死ぬのを見ただけだ。
I see them pop off every day in the Mater and Richmond and cut up into tripes in the dissectingroom.
僕はマター病院やリッチモンド病院で毎日人が死ぬのを見ているし、解剖室で内臓を切り刻まれるのも見ている。
It's a beastly thing and nothing else.
それはただひどいことに過ぎない、それだけだ。
It simply doesn't matter.
大した問題じゃない。
You wouldn't kneel down to pray for your mother on her deathbed when she asked you.
君は母が臨終の床で頼んだときでさえ、ひざまずいて祈ろうとしなかった。
Why? Because you have the cursed jesuit strain in you, only it's injected the wrong way.
なぜか？ 君の中に呪われたイエズス会の気質が染みついているからだ、ただし間違った方向に注入されてしまっているがな。
Vocabulary
- 彼
- kare — He; third-person masculine pronoun.
- は
- wa — Topic marker particle indicating the subject.
- 話し
- hanashi — Talk, speech, or story.
- ながら
- nagara — While doing something simultaneously.
- の
- no — Possessive or linking particle between nouns.
- 顔
- kao — Face; a person's facial features.
- を
- wo — Direct object marker particle.
- 見つめ
- mitsume — Stare at; gaze fixedly at someone.
- た
- ta — Past tense auxiliary verb ending.
- かすかな
- kasuka na — Faint, slight, barely perceptible.
- 風
- kaze — Wind; a current of air.
- が
- ga — Subject marker particle.
- 額
- hitai — Forehead; the front part of the head.
- よぎり
- yogiri — Pass across; sweep over briefly.
- 梳か
- suka — Comb through; untangle hair with comb.
- され
- sare — Passive voice auxiliary verb form.
- て
- te — Conjunctive particle connecting verb phrases.
- い
- i — Auxiliary verb indicating ongoing state.
- ない
- nai — Negation; not; does not exist.
- 淡い
- awai — Pale, faint, light in color or tone.
- 髪
- kami — Hair; strands growing from the head.
- そっと
- sotto — Gently, softly, quietly, with care.
- なびかせ
- nabikase — Cause to flutter or wave in wind.
- その
- sono — That; demonstrative adjective for nearby thing.
- 目
- me — Eye; the organ of sight.
- に
- ni — Direction, location, or indirect object particle.
- 銀色
- gin'iro — Silver color; metallic gray-white hue.
- 不安
- fuan — Anxiety, unease, worry, insecurity.
- 光
- hikari — Light; brightness; a beam of light.
- きらめかせ
- kiramekase — Cause to glitter or sparkle brilliantly.
- 自分
- jibun — Oneself; reflexive pronoun referring to self.
- 声
- koe — Voice; sound produced by speaking or singing.
- 暗い
- kurai — Dark, gloomy, dim; lacking light or cheer.
- 気持ち
- kimochi — Feeling, mood, emotion, sensation.
- なり
- nari — Becoming; taking on a state or form.
- 言っ
- it(te) — Said; past form of to say.
- 母
- haha — Mother; one's own mother.
- 死ん
- shin — Died; past stem of verb to die.
- だ
- da — Copula; plain form of to be.
- あと
- ato — After, following, subsequent to an event.
- 初めて
- hajimete — For the first time ever.
- 君
- kimi — You; informal second-person pronoun.
- 家
- ie — House, home, residence.
- 行っ
- it(te) — Went; past stem of verb to go.
- 日
- hi — Day; a period of twenty-four hours.
- こと
- koto — Thing, matter, event, fact, circumstance.
- 覚え
- oboe — Remember, recall, memorize something.
- いる
- iru — To be; to exist (for animate things).
- か
- ka — Question marker particle at sentence end.
- さっと
- satto — Quickly, swiftly, suddenly, in a flash.
- 眉
- mayu — Eyebrow; the ridge of hair above the eye.
- ひそめ
- Furrow or knit one's brows, frown.
- 何
- nani / nani — What; interrogative pronoun asking for identity.
- どこ
- doko — Where; interrogative asking about location.
- で
- de — At, by, with; location or means particle.
- も
- mo — Also, too, even; inclusive particle.
- 考え
- kangae — Thought, idea, thinking, consideration.
- や
- ya — And; non-exhaustive list-linking particle.
- 感覚
- kankaku — Sense, feeling, sensation, perception.
- だけ
- dake — Only, just, merely, nothing but.
- なぜ
- naze — Why; interrogative asking for reason.
- いったい
- ittai — On earth, in the world; intensifying interrogative.
- ん
- n — Contracted form of の or ぬ; informal.
- お茶
- ocha — Tea; polite word for green tea.
- 入れ
- ire — Put in, pour, make (tea or drink).
- お湯
- oyu — Hot water; boiling or heated water.
- 足し
- tashi — Add to; supplement an amount with more.
- 踊り場
- odoriba — Landing of a staircase; intermediate platform.
- 渡っ
- watt(e) — Cross over; pass from one side to another.
- 向こう
- mukō — Over there; the other side, beyond.
- へ
- e — Directional particle indicating movement toward.
- と
- to — And; with; quotation particle.
- お母さん
- okāsan — Mother; polite word for one's mother.
- 誰か
- dareka — Someone; an unspecified person.
- 客人
- kyakujin — Guest, visitor, person who has come calling.
- 客間
- kyakuma — Guest room, parlor, sitting room for visitors.
- から
- kara — From; because; starting point particle.
- 出
- de — Come out, exit, appear from inside.
- き
- ki — Came; past stem of verb to come.
- 部屋
- heya — Room; an enclosed space inside a building.
- 誰
- dare — Who; interrogative pronoun asking about a person.
- 尋ね
- tazune — Ask, inquire, question someone about something.
- そう
- sō — That way, like that, so, it seems.
- 僕
- boku — I, me; masculine informal first-person pronoun.
- 忘れ
- wasure — Forget; fail to remember something.
- しまっ
- shimatt(e) — End up doing; regrettably completed action.
- こう
- kō — Like this, in this way, thus.
- 答え
- kotae — Answer, reply, response to a question.
- ああ
- ā — Ah, oh; exclamation of realization or resignation.
- よ
- yo — Sentence-ending particle asserting or emphasizing.
- 母親
- hahaoya — Mother; one's own biological mother.
- ひどい
- hidoi — Terrible, awful, cruel, dreadful.
- 死に方
- shinikata — Way of dying; manner of one's death.
- し
- shi — Did; conjunctive past form of verb する.
- 奴
- yatsu — Guy, fellow; informal or contemptuous term for person.
- さ
- sa — Sentence-ending particle for light assertion.
- 頬
- hō — Cheek; the fleshy side of the face.
- 赤み
- akami — Redness, flush, reddish tint.
- 差し
- sashi — Insert, spread, infuse; appear gradually.
- それより
- sore yori — More than that; rather than that.
- 若々しく
- wakawakashiku — Youthfully, in a young and vibrant manner.
- 魅力的
- miryokuteki — Attractive, charming, appealing, fascinating.
- 見せ
- mise — Show, display, make something visible.
- 悪い
- warui — Bad, wrong, poor, inferior.
- 苛立たしげ
- iradat(a)shige — Looking irritated or vexed in manner.
- 中
- naka — Inside, middle, among, within.
- 気まずさ
- kimazusa — Awkwardness, discomfort, social unease between people.
- 振り払っ
- furiharatt(e) — Shake off, fling away, dispel forcefully.
- 死
- shi — Death; the end of life.
- あれ
- are — That (over there); distal demonstrative pronoun.
- 自身
- jishin — Oneself; the person themselves, personally.
- 死ぬ
- shinu — To die; to cease living.
- 見
- mi — See, watch, observe; stem of 見る.
- 病院
- byōin — Hospital; medical facility for treating patients.
- 毎日
- mainichi — Every day, daily.
- 人
- hito — Person, human being, people.
- 解剖室
- kaibōshitsu — Dissection room; anatomical laboratory for autopsies.
- 内臓
- naizō — Internal organs, viscera, entrails.
- 切り刻ま
- kirikizan(de) — Cut up, chop into pieces, dissect.
- れる
- reru — Passive or potential auxiliary verb suffix.
- ただ
- tada — Just, merely, only, simply.
- 過ぎ
- sugi — Too much; passing; excessive degree.
- 大した
- taishita — Great, significant, considerable; often used ironically.
- 問題
- mondai — Problem, question, issue, matter.
- じゃ
- ja — Casual contraction of では; well then.
- 臨終
- rinjū — One's deathbed; the moment of death.
- 床
- toko / yuka — Bed, floor; surface one lies or walks on.
- 頼ん
- tanon — Asked, requested, implored someone earnestly.
- とき
- toki — Time, moment, occasion, when.
- さえ
- sae — Even; at least; emphatic limiting particle.
- ひざまずい
- hizamazui — Kneel down; get on one's knees.
- 祈ろ
- inoro — Pray; volitional stem of verb to pray.
- う
- u — Volitional auxiliary: let's; intention or suggestion.
- なかっ
- nakatt(a) — Did not; past negative auxiliary form.
- 呪わ
- norowa — Curse, hex; put a curse upon someone.
- れ
- re — Passive suffix; being acted upon.
- イエズス会
- Iezusukai — Society of Jesus; Jesuit religious order.
- 気質
- kishitsu — Temperament, disposition, nature, character.
- 染みつい
- shimitsui — Become deeply ingrained, soak in, permeate.
- ただし
- tadashi — However, but, provided that; qualifying conjunction.
- 間違っ
- machigatt(e) — Being mistaken, wrong, erroneous.
- 方向
- hōkō — Direction, course, orientation.
- 注入
- chūnyū — Inject, pour into, infuse something into.
- な
- na — Sentence-ending particle; prohibition or mild assertion.
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